EuroSail News #5363 - 30 June
In This Issue
• 11th Hour Racing Team wins The Ocean Race
• Redress to 11th Hour Racing Team
• Built without barriers - Doyle Sails
• Second wave heads to Hawaii in Transpac
• Melges 24 World Championship
• 44Cup Marstrand
• IRC Two-Handed European Championship
• The Return to Marstrand
• Robin Allingham Aisher OBE | 1934-2023
• Featured Brokerage:
• • ARAGON Marten 72 Racer - Cruiser
• • Persico Fly 40
• • Neo 570c
• The Last Word: Napoleon Bonaparte
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11th Hour Racing Team wins The Ocean Race: the first US-flagged team in its 50-year history
US offshore sailing outfit 11th Hour Racing Team has won The Ocean Race - the world's longest and toughest team sporting event. The Newport, RI-based team is the first US-flagged entry to win The Ocean Race in its 50-year history.
In unprecedented scenes, the crew heard about their win via a satellite phone call from team CEO, Mark Towill, as they delivered their 60-foot IMOCA, Mālama, to Genoa. This followed a redress hearing by the World Sailing International Jury which awarded the team four points for the final leg following a no-fault collision just seventeen minutes into the start of the final stage of the round the world race, which forced them to return immediately to port and retire.
11th Hour Racing Team overall crew list for The Ocean Race 2022-23:
Charlie Enright (USA) - Skipper
Simon Fisher (GBR) - Navigator
Jack Bouttell (AUS/GBR) - Trimmer
Franck Cammas (FRA) - Trimmer
Francesca Clapcich (ITA) - Trimmer
Charlie Dalin (FRA) - Trimmer
Damian Foxall (IRL) - Trimmer
Justine Mettraux (FRA) - Trimmer
Pierre Bouras (FRA) - Media Crew Member
Amory Ross (USA) - Media Crew Member
The Ocean Race 2022-23 Final Overall Leaderboard:
5 points = first; 4 points = second etc.
Note: Leg 3 and Leg 5 scored double points
1. 11th Hour Racing Team - 37 points (4+3+3+3+5+10+5+4**)
2. Team Holcim - PRB - 34 points (5+5+5+4+0+8+4+3)
3. Team Malizia - 32 points (3+2+4+5+4+6+3+5)
4. Biotherm Racing - 23 points (2+4+2+2+3+4+2+4)
5. GUYOT environnement - Team Europe - 2 points (1+1+0+0+0+0+1+0)*
* GUYOT penalized -1 point for exceeding the permitted number of sails
** Given redress
In-Port Race Leaderboard:
5 points = first; 4 points = second etc.
1. 11th Hour Racing Team - 24 points (4+4+5+4+3+4)
2. Team Malizia - 21 points (5+3+3+5+2+3)
3. Biotherm - 16 points (3+0+4+2+5+2)
4. Holcim-PRB - 15 points (0+5+2+3+4+1)
5. GUYOT environnement - team Europe 10 points (2+2+1+0+0+5)
World Sailing International Jury awards Redress to 11th Hour Racing Team
11th Hour Racing Team is the winner of The Ocean Race. This comes after the World Sailing International Jury awarded the team 4 points of redress - equal to their average finishes over the rest of the race. That was enough to leap 3 points clear of Team Holcim-PRB, confirmed in second place, and Team Malizie in third.
Shortly after the start of leg 7 in The Hague, 11th Hour Racing Team was hit by GUYOT environnement - Team Europe, knocking both boats out of the leg with significant damage.
Benjamin Dutreux, the skipper of GUYOT environnement - Team Europe promptly acknowledged responsibility for the collision, retiring from the leg.
11th Hour Racing Team returned to The Hague and immediately set about repairing its boat with a goal of rejoining the fleet for the Grand Finale in Genova.
The rules of The Ocean Race don't permit a team to suspend racing on the final leg of the event, so 11th Hour Racing Team was also forced to retire from leg 7, before finishing its repairs and starting its 'race within a race' to get to Genova ahead of Saturday's In Port Racing.
The team also filed a Request for Redress with the International Jury, a common procedure in the sport of sailing, whereby a team may be awarded points if its finishing position has been made significantly worse through no fault of its own.
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A Doyle Sails veteran with more than 26 years of experience, Giattino has been with the company for longer than anyone other than its founder, Robbie Doyle. Giattino, who works alongside business partner Salvo d'Amico, worked closely with Robbie Doyle to support the sailmaker's superyacht division from its beginnings in the 1990s. Doyle Sails Italy, when their primary facility in Palermo, Sicily began finishing and servicing sails for Perini Navi, and is now widely acknowledged as a world-class facility for all superyachts in Europe.
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Second wave heads to Hawaii in Transpac
Under sunny skies and a light westerly breeze, the second group of entries has started their 2225-mile journey to Honolulu in the 2023 Transpac. Nineteen boats divided in three classes - Ocean Navigator Division 4, Cabrillo Boat Shop Division 5 and Pasha Hawaii Division 6 - set off from Point Fermin to first clear the West End of Catalina island 25 miles away and then out into the open Pacific Ocean.
Like the first group of starters on Tuesday this week, they face an initial upwind challenge to clear the West End - the entire fleet tacked to port just after the start to have better pressure along the Palos Verdes coast - and then follow their navigator's advice on the next steps. Do they carry on upwind to stay north close to rhumb line, thereby minimizing the extra distance sailed to Hawaii? Or bear off a few degrees once they clear the coast for increased speed at the expense of sailing extra distance in order to get an initial jump on the fleet and then maneuver to stay in front as the weather allows.
Today there were young sailors doing their first Transpac on the crews of two boats. Both are father-son pairs, upholding a long-standing Transpac tradition of encouraging family participation in offshore sailing.
The youngest is 13-year old Nicholas Messano, whose father Chris is partners with Bill Durant in their renovated Santa Cruz 50 DECEPTION. Chris said Nicholas is fitting well in the crew and is looking forward to a great race.
Fifteen year old Oliver Ernest is also looking forward to the race, having already crewed on his dad Steve's J/145 AIMANT DE FILLE in the SoCal 300, Cabo San Lucas and Long Point races. Having had extensive experience in his summers of sailing Naples Sabots, then 420s, Oliver was assigned to be the starting helmsman of the race. The team's front-row start validated these skills.
Melges 24 World Championship
Middelfart, Denmark - Day Three at the Melges 24 World Championship 2023 in Middelfart, Denmark offered unsteady weather, rain, cloudiness, and shifty winds challenging seriously both the crews (47 teams from 13 nations) and the Race Committee, in serious trouble while trying to set the marks. This all created some waiting time on the racecourse, abandoning the race on halfway and postponements. Both the teams and Race Committee had to be patient, but it paid off and the RC succeeded in completing another three races to have total of six on the score line including a discard coming into effect after six races sailed.
The first race of the day got finally off 40 minutes later than scheduled with a general recall. Next attempt was started under black flag at 12:45 with one boat black flagged.
It was a race of Norway, where three Norwegian Corinthian teams were on top. Three times Corinthian World Champion Storm Capital with Peder Jahre at the helm got off with a great start and was leading the race since the beginning until the finish with a solid lead over Race One winner Blow of Peder Nergaard followed by Børre Hekk Paulsen's Helly Hansen Lisa II.
Top Ten after 6 races (1 discard) including Corinthians:
1. Pacific Yankee - Drew Freides, USA, 20
2. Raza Mixta - Peter Duncan, USA, 20
3. War Canoe - Chris Rast, USA, 27
4. Mataran 24 - Ante Botica (Corinthian), CRO, 28
5. White Room - Luis Tarabochia (Corinthian), GER, 33
6. Helly Hansen Lisa Ii - Borre Hekk Paulsen - (Corinthian), NOR, 41
7. Monsoon - Bruce Ayres, USA, 42
8. Dark Energy - Laura Grondin, USA, 45
9. Panjic - Luka Sangulin, CRO, 49
10. Lenny - Tonu Toniste - (Corinthian), EST, 50
Four Races; Four Winners as 44Cup Marstrand Sets Sail
Racing resumed in Europe for the eight high performance owner-driver one design RC44s today with the opening rounds of the 44Cup Marstrand, hosted by the Marstrands Segelsällskap and supported by Artemis Technologies. With the sky overcast for the first three races, conditions were relatively benign, the wind never exceeding 10 knots and more often closer to 6 and slowly backing from the southwest to the south over the course of the afternoon. The 44Cup teams and race organisers have been keeping an eye on the forecast which tomorrow is warning of 20-30 knot winds, conditions which may not be sailable even for the highly adaptable RC44s. As a result in anticipation of possible disruption, four, rather than the usual three races, were held making use of today's lighter conditions.
Once again demonstrating the high calibre of the 44Cup fleet, each of today's four races had a different winner. After three races the three boats which had won races were tied for the lead on nine points: Hugues Lepic's Aleph Racing, winner of the first; Nico Poons' Charisma, winner of the second and John Bassadone's Peninsula Racing, winner of the third. With Chris Bake's Team Aqua claiming the fourth and final race of the day ahead of Charisma in second, Poons' Monaco-based team, the defending Marstand champion, tops the leaderboard after this opening day of racing in Sweden but in usual 44Cup style by just one point.
44Cup Marstrand Results:
(After four races)
1. Charisma, SUI, 11
2. Aleph Racing, FRA, 12
3. Peninsula Racing, GBR, 15
4. Team Aqua, GBR, 16
5. Team Nika, MON, 17
6. Team Ceeref powered by Hrastnik 1860, SLO, 23
7. Black Star Sailing Tea, SUI, 24
8. Artemis Racing, SWE, 26
IRC Two-Handed European Championship 02-09 July 2023
The inaugural IRC Two-Handed European championship will have 60 teams on the start line off the south Breton port of La Trinité sur Mer on Sunday July 2. The championship consists of 500 offshore miles across two challenging races, taking competitors first to Cowes, where there's a two-day layover, then back across the English Channel to St Malo. A strong line-up of modern boats come from seven different countries, the majority are from France but also Australia, Belgium, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United States.
Among the 25 JPKs are nine 1030s, a pair of 1080s, a dozen of the older 1010s, plus a pair of the smaller 960s. The Sun Fast contingent includes eleven 3300s, ten of the older 3200s, plus a trio of 3600s. Among these are two of the most experienced and successful UK two-handed teams - Nick Martin on Diablo and Rob Craigie / Deb Fish on Bellino, who were second and third respectively in last year's RORC Season's Points Championship.
The entry list also includes a Grand Soleil 35, three J/99s and a J/97, the lowest rated boat in the fleet, a fraction lower than the JPK 960s. Overall the fleet includes an impressive amount of talent. The JPK 1030 Leon, for instance, is a well-known boat usually campaigned by Jean Pierre Kelbert, who took second place in the fiercely competitive double-handed division of the Arwen race earlier this year. Victor Bordes-Laridan has entered the boat in the event, fresh from winning the IRC fully-crewed IRC European Championship in Cannes at the beginning of June.
However, overall two-handed victory in the Armen race went to another JPK1030 that's also competing in the Double-Handed IRC Europeans, Thomas Bonnier's Juzzy. It will be fascinating to see how the duel between these two plays out. A third JPK 1030, Dutch entry Astrid de Vin's Il Corvo, is also a strong contender. De Vin took overall victory, for example, in last year's North Sea Race, sailing a JPK 1180 of the same name. -- Rupert Holmes/RORC
The Return to Marstrand
Match racing returns to its Swedish spiritual home next week with the 29th edition of the GKSS Match Cup Sweden taking place over 4-8 July in the tourist island hotspot of Marstrand off Sweden's west coast. A founding event of the World Match Racing Tour, the event is renowned as one of the world's most iconic match racing venues, drawing large and enthusiastic crowds along the cliffs and shoreline of the Marstrand Fjord.
Hosted by the Royal Gothenburg Yacht Club (GKSS), GKSS Match Cup Sweden in the past has featured many clashes between match racing and America's Cup titans. Notably seven-time champion Peter Gilmour in his bouts with future America's Cup winning helmsman Ed Baird; 2002 when Dean Barker memorably defeated his 'mentor' Russell Coutts (en route to skippering Team New Zealand in the 31st America's Cup, when he lost to Coutts); and in turn Coutts' own two victories in 2001 and 2004. Although not represented this year, British match racing legends have been victorious on Marstand Fjord several times including Chris Law in 2003, Ben Ainslie in 2010 and six-time WMRT Champion Ian Williams in 2011.
More recently, Sweden's home-grown talent has prevailed in Björn Hansen, long dubbed the 'Master of Marstrand', who has won his country's premier match racing event no less than five times, four consecutively over 2012-15. Hansen is one of the few of the 'old guard' to return to Marstrand this year, along with fellow Swede Johnnie Berntsson, who although he has never made a Match Cup Sweden final is a two-time winner of the Tour's equally iconic Bermuda Gold Cup event.
Robin Allingham Aisher OBE | 1934-2023
Robin Aisher became a member of the Royal Ocean Racing Club in 1973 and was Commodore from 1985 to 1987. He was appointed OBE in the 1986 Birthday Honours.
Robin Aisher represented Great Britain at three Summer Olympic Games. In 1968 Robin won a bronze medal in the 5.5 Metre class together with Adrian Jardine and Paul Anderson.
The 1973 RORC Yacht of the Year was the Dick Carter designed Frigate, which was sailed by Tony Boyden and Robin Aisher. Frigate also won the Alan Paul Trophy and was third in the individual points for the 1973 Admiral's Cup. Robin carried on the tradition his father (Sir Owen Aisher - Admiral 1969-1975) started by calling his boats Yeoman.
Robin Aisher is one of the most successful sailors for the Admiral's Cup, winning on multiple occasions. In 1975, Robin Aisher's Yeoman XX, along with Ron Amey's Noryema X, and John Prentices' Battlecry, won the Admiral's Cup for Great Britain. Robin Aisher was awarded Yachtsman of the Year in 1975. In the 1977 Admiral's Cup, Great Britain retained the Trophy with a team of Jeremy Rogers' Moonshine, Robin Aisher's Yeoman XX, and Chris Dunning's Marionette. A third Admiral's Cup victory was achieved by Robin Aisher sailing Yeoman XXIII as Captain of the 1981 British team with Peter de Savray's Victory of Burnham, and Pam Saffrey Cooper's Dragon.
The Aisher family have requested privacy for Robin's wife Val, who is unwell, and for no flowers or cards to be sent to her home for the time being. There will be a private family funeral, details for the memorial service will be announced when known.
The Royal Ocean Racing Club offers our deepest condolences to the Aisher Family, with love and remembrance of Robin Aisher.
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